Machala Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Machala, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 29°C on December 1 to 29°C on December 31, and lows from 20°C to 21°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 37 mm over about 9 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Reanalysis extreme high
Reanalysis extreme low

December at a glance

Average high: 29°C
Average low: 20°C
Precipitation: 37 mm
Reanalysis high: 34°CDec 28, 2015
Reanalysis low: 18°CDec 9, 2007
Daylight: 12 h 18 min to 12 h 18 min
Cloud cover: 80%
Humidity: 71%
Dew point: 18°C
Wind: 10.4 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Reanalysis high	Reanalysis low	Chance wet
Dec 1	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1992	16%
Dec 2	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1992	17%
Dec 3	29°C	20°C	33°C 2002	18°C 1998	18%
Dec 4	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1998	20%
Dec 5	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1992	21%
Dec 6	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1992	21%
Dec 7	29°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 1998	23%
Dec 8	29°C	20°C	31°C 2015	19°C 1995	24%
Dec 9	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 2007	25%
Dec 10	29°C	20°C	33°C 2015	19°C 2007	24%
Dec 11	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	19°C 1995	26%
Dec 12	29°C	20°C	33°C 2015	18°C 2007	27%
Dec 13	29°C	20°C	32°C 2015	18°C 1995	29%
Dec 14	29°C	20°C	31°C 2012	18°C 1995	30%
Dec 15	29°C	20°C	31°C 2009	19°C 1992	31%
Dec 16	29°C	20°C	32°C 1994	19°C 2007	31%
Dec 17	29°C	20°C	33°C 2015	19°C 2007	31%
Dec 18	29°C	20°C	31°C 1996	19°C 1992	32%
Dec 19	29°C	20°C	32°C 2003	19°C 2010	33%
Dec 20	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	19°C 1992	34%
Dec 21	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	19°C 1992	35%
Dec 22	29°C	21°C	32°C 2015	19°C 1992	35%
Dec 23	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	20°C 1992	36%
Dec 24	29°C	21°C	32°C 2015	19°C 2000	36%
Dec 25	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	19°C 1999	36%
Dec 26	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	19°C 2000	35%
Dec 27	29°C	21°C	32°C 2015	20°C 1999	35%
Dec 28	29°C	21°C	34°C 2015	20°C 1996	35%
Dec 29	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	20°C 1996	35%
Dec 30	29°C	21°C	33°C 2015	19°C 2004	37%
Dec 31	29°C	21°C	32°C 2015	19°C 1996	37%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT-5).

December 1: sunrise 6:00 AM, sunset 6:18 PM
December 31: sunrise 6:14 AM, sunset 6:32 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.